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Located in Newport News, Virginia, the Mariners' Museum is one of the largest international maritime history museums filled to the crow's nest with prized artifacts that celebrate the spirit of seafaring adventure. Site features eight online exhibitions including: The Age of Exploration, the USS...
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This page provides animated excerpts from Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. Richard Feynman's presentation to the American Physical Society Meeting on December 29, 1959 that proposes "...maneuvering things atom by atom." The talk is considered by some to be the birth of nanotechology.
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This video clip provides an introduction to Richard Feynman's work and his impact on nanotechnology. Feynman's talk "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" examined the future of technology and how things could be done on the nano-scale. The video includes a few quotes from Feynman's work.